بأبيwith my father as ransom وأمّيand my mother أنتُمُyou
بأبي وأمّي أنتُمُ
منas عصبةٍa band of kinsmen ياO آلَhouse of مالكْMalik
من عصبةٍ يا آلَ مالكْ
May my father and mother be your ransom,
By my father and mother, you are
you band of kinsmen, O house of Malik!
A tribe, O descendants of Malik
ماwhat للزمانِails Time يزفُّكمit escorts you in procession
ما للزمانِ يزفُّكم
فيin كلّevery يومٍday للمهالكْto places of destruction
في كلّ يومٍ للمهالكْ
What ails Time, that it escorts you
What misfortune keeps throwing you
each day to places of destruction?
Each day into perils
أفناكُمُdestroyed you ألّاthat not تزاcease (continued next line)
أفناكُمُ ألّا تزا
لَcompletion of 'cease' حُماتكمyour defenders بينamid الشوابكْthe interlocking spears
لَ حُماتكم بين الشوابكْ
Your undoing was that, unceasingly,
It destroyed you, had you not stood
your defenders stood amid interlocking spears.
As shields protecting your homes
ثبتتْstood firm لكمfor you أعراقُكُمْyour ancestral roots
ثبتتْ لكم أعراقُكُمْ
حتىuntil ثويتمyou lay fallen فيin المعاركْthe battles
حتى ثويتم في المعاركْ
Your ancestral roots held firm,
Your roots held firm
until you lay fallen on the battlefields.
Until you withered in battle
بأبيwith my father as ransom وجوهُكُمyour faces التيwhich
بأبي وجوهُكُم التي
دَميتْwere bloodied بأطرافby the edges of السنابكْthe hooves
دَميتْ بأطراف السنابكْ
May my father ransom your faces, which
By my father, your faces that
were bloodied by the edges of hooves.
Were bloodied by the tips of spears
ولقدand indeed تكونُthey used to be أهلَّةًcrescent moons
ولقد تكونُ أهلَّةً
للناسfor the people فيin الظُّلَمِthe darkness الحوالكْpitch-black
للناس في الظُّلَمِ الحوالكْ
Yet once they were crescent moons
You would have been pillars
for people in the pitch-black darkness.
For people in the darkest nights
أنُصابُare we to be stricken? فيكمْthrough losing you بالرَّدىby death
أنُصابُ فيكمْ بالرَّدى
وتسدُّand are barred دونكُمُbetween us and you المسالكْthe paths
وتسدُّ دونكُمُ المسالكْ
Must death afflict us through your loss,
But I lament your ruin
and the paths to you be barred?
And paths to you are blocked
أمستhas become سبيلُthe way to مزاركمvisiting you
أمست سبيلُ مزاركم
ممنوعةًbarred منfrom كلevery سالكْtraveler
ممنوعةً من كل سالكْ
The way to visit you has become
The way to your graves
closed to every traveler.
Is forbidden to all passersby
Sol 6.1